Joan Ingram is a Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 broadcaster, journalist and media company director.

Ingram studied at the University of Dundee

University of Dundee

The University of Dundee is a university based in the city and Royal burgh of Dundee on eastern coast of the central Lowlands of Scotland and with a small number of institutions elsewhere....

 and Aberdeen University where she obtained a MA honours degree in politics & jurisprudence in 1981 and an MBA in 1996, respectively.

She began her broadcasting career in 1982 at Radio Tay

Radio Tay

Radio Tay is a division of Bauer Radio which broadcasts two Independent Local Radio stations throughout Tayside and northeast Fife in Scotland....

. Within a year, Ingram joined Grampian Television

Grampian Television

Grampian Television is the ITV franchisee for the North and North East of Scotland. Its coverage area includes the Scottish Highlands , Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee and parts of north Fife...

 (now STV North) as a reporter & presenter for the nightly news programme North Tonight

North Tonight

North Tonight was a Scottish nightly regional news programme covering the North of Scotland, produced by STV North .-History:North Tonight began on 7 January 1980 with presenters John Duncanson and Selina Scott...

and various documentaries. Whilst at Grampian, Ingram also presented political and current affairs programming including Crossfire and Scottish Question Time. Ingram left the station in 1996 and continued to freelance as a television broadcaster until 1999, presenting SMG's coverage of the new Scottish parliament.

In 1993, she set up her own Aberdeen-based multimedia and communications company, The Fifth Business. The company has since expanded and now also operates from offices in Houston, London

London

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 and The Hague

The Hague

The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...

. Ingram continues to work as an executive director for the company.